it's like carrying a pocketknife, only different. -- j

these days, you could reply "I have a gun
because I have a large penis." then, see
if either she or he walks away. . someone
with decent respect would just say, "Great!" -- j

Your serve, doc.

DiDi Snavely: Remember our motto at Didi's used weapons, if we can't kill it, it's immortal. ...

Excellent quote. Here's another.
"A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who would attempt to abuse them. Which would include their own government." George Washington

First, I did not mean to imply that any gun has a mind that can discriminate between good and evil. I wouldn't care if everyone wore a Glock like a belt buckle and it would probably reduce crime without significantly increasing homicides. I am one, however, that would not want to depend on not getting shot by a soldier on the order of an officer. I am concerned that 150 million of us would not be of one mind, at one time to do us much good. 6 million Jews could have repelled the SS but they were sent to camps in relatively small numbers at a time. All the more reason to be willing to die for freedom but the size of our peashooter will not matter against the government. We may be able to take a few pawns with us but we will not scratch those that are at the source of our dilemma.

Several flaws in your otherwise sensible argument: first, there is no guarantee the better idea will even be considered, let alone be adopted by those with power. They don't care if the other side wins, so "win-win" means nothing to them. Second, there's no guarantee that the standing army will react monolithically to the orders of the central government. In fact, the American Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) explicitly demands disobedience to unconstitutional orders, so some number of those members of the standing army will oppose the government, bringing whatever technology they can get their hands on. Third, while the media likes to portray civilian militias as completely untrained crowds firing wildly un-aimed bursts of fire from AK-47s, an American militia will likely be more like the Viet Cong, using ambush, long-distance sniper fire, IEDs, and booby traps.

The Russians, with military technological superiority, failed to defeat the Afghan Mujahideen, some of whom were in fact using black powder muskets for nearly ten years before we tipped the balance against the helicopter gunships.

You've fallen victim to the classic military orderly, "set-piece" combat thinking, which hasn't worked since Napoleon's time. Should the opposition against an out of control government be forced into a violent confrontation, the outcome will not be fore-ordained, but chaotic and unpredictable.

"I heard a burglar downstairs...the poor fool."

Criminals obey so-called common sense gun laws like politicians obey their oaths of office.

In studying the debates surrounding the adoption of the second amendment, one finds that it wasn't written so that we could put meat on our tables. It was written so that citizens could take up arms against a government that ceases to follow the balance prescribed by the Constitution, and that becomes tyrannical.

Hahaha! Zing

Scary. I don't imagine they are the majority, though.

+1 for the Heinlein quote

Well said.

"I don't like guns."
"Why?"
"I'm afraid of them?"
"Why aren't you afraid of your car then?"
"What? Because I took training to learn how to drive it."
"Exactly!"

Correct, but who said being a liberal was logical?

I will give up my gun when Mike Bloomberg hires and pays for my armed security detail around the clock, 24/7/365, Just like his! A cop responding to a 911 call to my house takes a good 30 minutes while a bullet from a .357 takes under a second.

Yes! +1!!!

Technically, I was Air Force..

But didn't the left just declare cops to be racist murderers? I have difficulty fitting that so-called logic to the idea that only cops should have guns.

One answer I gave some 30 years ago was: "I have a gun because I have a small penis." She walked away.

I believe its called the "Bill of Rights", not the "Bill of Needs". That's always my smart-a$$ answer to this question. lol

Anti-gunners equate Police (good guys) with guns = OK, they equate everyone else with guns (not police) as bad guys, thus anyone with guns who are not police = bad guys. Simple fact. not saying they are bad, they just need educated about guns and people who use/have them.